I've officially put down the Kool-Aid

[MUAlum99]

This team really, really stinks.  They showed me absolutely NOTHING tonight.

This is the first game I've ever walked out early...I never thought I'd do it.  Once the lead hit 20 points I had seen enough.

With the rest of our schedule, I'd be happy with a .500 finish in the BIG EAST...maybe we can host a game or two in the NIT.  Hell, what am I saying?  Maybe we can host A game in the NIT.  A loss...to Western Michigan.  How fitting would that be?

Ugh...I'm absolutely sick to my stomach right now.  And not like Dominic was today...more like: one-of-my-kids-did-something-really-stupid-to-embarrass-me-in-public kind of sick.  Ugh.   

[4everwarriors]

still hasn't finished their pitcher of Blue and Gold Kool-Aid.

[MUAlum99]

still hasn't finished their pitcher of Blue and Gold Kool-Aid.

That's exactly why I came over here to vent.  There seem to actually be some realists over here...

[MUFanInGreenBay]

Put down the Kool-Aid. Maybe next year you can start drinking it again. It's time to pick-up the 40 ouncers if you're going to have any enjoyment watching MU play the rest of the year.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Well, to each his own.  I thought we sucked balls tonight.  I thought we sucked balls the last 3 games, yet we won two of those three.

I guess it all depends on people want to look at things.

Right now, we are playing like crap....yet we're 16-5 and 6-4 in the Big East.  We still have 4 games left against the bottom tier of the conference and one against Florida Gulf Coast.  Plus we have Pitt at home.  Get those and that's 22 wins.  Hell, get 5 or those 6 and we're 21 wins.

I won't hit the 40oz just yet, but we are not playing well that's for sure.

[mugrack]

Hey, it's hard to win at home in the Big East!

[mviale]

Here is some kool-aid:

1)Barro looked good
2) James was not his self tonight - a healthy James and Sosa doesnt have 18 and DJ gets 16. MU would have been closer

[mugrack]

If ifs and buts were candy and nuts it would be Christmas every day!

[Eye]

Agreed Alum. First game I've ever been at where I considered leaving at the 4-minute time out. I did get up to put my coat on with about 40 seconds remaining, which has to be the first time I've ever even done that. Starting walking down the aisle in the final minute. Frankly surprised there were as many people as there were there in the final four minutes. And why didn't Hazel get to play the last four minutes? A scholarship player in a game where MU is getting beat by 20?

As for the other board, I thought they were much more matter-of-fact than they normally are tonight.

[ecompt]

mviale--excellent points except for DJ. That was himself tonight. That's the DJ we've seen (mostly) for almost a full year now.

[nyg]

Eight BE games left.  Beat St. Johns and Rutgers.  Other games: at ND, at SH, at Vill and at Syr., Pitt at home and Geo at home, all possible losses. Or should I say probable the way this team has played. That would be 19-11 overall, 8-10 in BE play. If that happens, they must make a run in the BE tournament or NCAA bid is out, which would terrible. Need to win 4 out of remaining 8 BE games in order to get to 8-8 in regular BE play. 

[bilsu]

Let's wait to see how they respond to Notre Dame. Louisville is clearly a better than Marquette. They have size, balance, quickness and depth. Notre Dame has size and balance. I believe MU is better than Notre Dame and should win the game. If MU comes out flat they are in the tank and will lose the game and the season. If they come out with fire in their eyes they will win the game and we will be okay.

[nyg]

The last time we weren't down by 10 points or so in the first eight minutes was the ND game, at home.  That seems like a long, long, time ago doesn't it? I have some really bad vibes going on this morning.

[NateDoggMarq]

still hasn't finished their pitcher of Blue and Gold Kool-Aid.

No they have not.  They still say that the Kool-Aid is great, and they told me it even taste better accompanied by 900 other people in a Guyaneese Jungle.

[ATWizJr]

Like other out of state (RI) MU fans, it was a luxury to get an MU BB game on the tube.  For the first time ever, I stopped watching and took the dog for a walk.  Very disappointing.

[ecompt]

I figured going in, OK, we're back on track, playing at home against a hated rival, we'll win. When it was 5-0, I said to my wife, it's over. I stopped TIVO'ing it midway through the first half and erased it immediately. We cannot compete with the upper echelon of this league, but especially when it appears half the team has thrown in the towel. 

[Frozen Caveman Coach]

Dodds and a couple others seem to be on the MU payroll on the other board.  They will stop at no length to defend Tom Crean and bring up Wade, the Al Center, entry into the Big East or some other diversion as defense of the program. 

The team has never played great half court offense, other than the 2 Wade years, in Crean's entire tenure as coach.  Force them into a 1/2 court contest and MU is toast every time.

[🏀]

Dodds and a couple others seem to be on the MU payroll on the other board.  They will stop at no length to defend Tom Crean and bring up Wade, the Al Center, entry into the Big East or some other diversion as defense of the program. 

The team has never played great half court offense, other than the 2 Wade years, in Crean's entire tenure as coach.  Force them into a 1/2 court contest and MU is toast every time.

Dodds IS on MU's payroll.

[Frozen Caveman Coach]

Oh, thanks.  That explains his complete lack of objectivity.

[HarveysWallbangers]

Is that true? I recall a Facebook group where one of Dodds student writers was saying how members of the athletic dept. were complaining about MUScoop -- as if the posters here are not entitled to their opinions. But are they really on MU's payroll?

[bma725]

Is that true? I recall a Facebook group where one of Dodds student writers was saying how members of the athletic dept. were complaining about MUScoop -- as if the posters here are not entitled to their opinions. But are they really on MU's payroll?

"They" are not.  Dodds is, but it has nothing to do with his website.  He's been one of MU's statisticians for years, at least since the early 1990s, maybe before.

[NCMUFan]

Could Louisville been a really good team?  Am I on Kool-Aid?  I got to say this board wins the pessimist Marquette Board Award.  Check out all the negative threads.  You would of thought Louisville was the worst team in the country that beat us.

[79Warrior]

Eight BE games left.  Beat St. Johns and Rutgers.  Other games: at ND, at SH, at Vill and at Syr., Pitt at home and Geo at home, all possible losses. Or should I say probable the way this team has played. That would be 19-11 overall, 8-10 in BE play. If that happens, they must make a run in the BE tournament or NCAA bid is out, which would terrible. Need to win 4 out of remaining 8 BE games in order to get to 8-8 in regular BE play. 

8-10 in BE play and we are out unless we win BE tourney. We will NOT get in with a sub .500 BE record.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Eight BE games left.  Beat St. Johns and Rutgers.  Other games: at ND, at SH, at Vill and at Syr., Pitt at home and Geo at home, all possible losses. Or should I say probable the way this team has played. That would be 19-11 overall, 8-10 in BE play. If that happens, they must make a run in the BE tournament or NCAA bid is out, which would terrible. Need to win 4 out of remaining 8 BE games in order to get to 8-8 in regular BE play. 

I don't agree.  Why is at Villanova, at Syracuse and at SH probably losses?  They sure could be losses, but probable?  I'm not so sure.  We've lost 4 conference games, 3 of them on the road at tough tough tough places to play and the other at home to Louisville.  Our one "average" road game we won.  I see at SH, at Villanova and at Syracuse as definite winnable games.  50-50 games in my mind for 2 of those.

I think they will need 10 BIG EAST wins to get in, but 9 might do it.  Depends if one of the remaining ones is against G'Town, Pitt or ND...then that helps the cause that much more.

Still a TON of basketball to be played.

[Coobeys Oil Depot]

still hasn't finished their pitcher of Blue and Gold Kool-Aid.

That's exactly why I came over here to vent.  There seem to actually be some realists over here...

So being real is quitting as a fan because your team lost a game? Being real is quitting on a team and then having an avatar that displays a picture of James and Matthews? Sounds more like being childish and hypocritical.

In my mind, Marquette has played 2 good Big East games. The rest have been battles between absolute awesomeness and absolute awfulness. But since fan is short for fanatic I'm going to take the 6-4 record through ten games knowing that in 8 of those games they've looked downright putrid at times.

There are 8 games left. And games against teams they can beat without playing their best game: St. John's, Rutgers, Villanova. Hell, even Pittsburgh and Seton Hall are great match-ups for Marquette.